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Royal palaces and parks of France (1910)

Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 366

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state than ithas been for long past, for the restorations latelymade have removed certain interpolations mani-festly out of place. It is due to M. de Nolhac, the Conservateurdu Musee de Versailles, that this happy amel-ioration has been brought about and that Man-sartS admirable work is again as it… … The Gardens of Versailles 275 made of Versailles an oratory, but La Pompa-dour turned it into a boudoir.^ He also calledthe Trianon: a tiny chateau of porcelain.It was, too, the boudoir of Madame de Mon-tespan. Louis XV, too, built, or furnished, discreetboudoirs of this order on every hand.…

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